Speakers & Artists
Founders, Researchers,
Artists.
The people shaping autonomous systems are not observing them. They are building them. Meet the speakers of Digital Art Summit 2026.
Confirmed Speakers
ACT 02, ACT 06
Ian Rogers
Ledger CXO · Let's Vibe co-host
Ian Rogers is the Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, the global leader in digital asset security. Previously, he served as Chief Digital Officer at LVMH and held leadership roles at Apple and Beats. He co-hosts Let's Vibe, exploring the intersection of culture and technology.
ACT 01, ACT 02
Fabian Stelzer
Glyph, Berlin · a16z-backed
Fabian Stelzer is the founder of Glyph, a Berlin-based studio creating AI-native storytelling tools. Backed by a16z, his work explores the frontier of generative narrative and autonomous creative systems.
Full Day
Seth Goldstein
Moderator · Moltbook / /vibe
Seth Goldstein is a serial entrepreneur and cultural technologist. Creator of Moltbook and the /vibe platform, he moderates the full day's proceedings, connecting threads between art, code, and autonomy.
Priority Outreach
ACT 05, ACT 06
Pete Steinberger
OpenClaw, Vienna
Known as 'The Linus of AI' in developer circles, Pete Steinberger is the founder of OpenClaw in Vienna. His work on open-source AI tooling has redefined how developers interact with autonomous systems.
ACT 04
0xDEAFBEEF / Tyler
On-chain audio-visual art
0xDEAFBEEF creates generative audio-visual artworks that exist entirely on-chain. Each piece is a self-contained system — code that generates both image and sound from the same algorithm, stored permanently on Ethereum.
ACT 04
0x113d / Chris
Mathcastles / Terraforms
Chris, known as 0x113d, is the creator of Mathcastles and Terraforms — a fully on-chain virtual world built from mathematical structures. His work treats the blockchain as a medium for architectural and spatial art.
ACT 05
Holly Herndon
Music, tools, data consent
Holly Herndon is a musician, composer, and technologist whose work explores the intersection of AI, voice, and collective creation. She co-created Holly+, an AI voice tool, and advocates for consent-based data practices in creative AI.
ACT 04
Rhea Myers
On-chain art pioneer
Rhea Myers is one of the earliest artists to work with blockchain as a creative medium. Her conceptual art explores ownership, freedom, and the aesthetics of code, with works dating back to the earliest days of crypto art.
ACT 03
Gregory Chatonsky
Feral Project, AI + ecology
Gregory Chatonsky is a French-Canadian artist whose Feral Project explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and ecological systems. His installations examine what happens when technology becomes wild.
ACT 03
Paul Seidler
terra0, self-owning forest
Paul Seidler co-founded terra0, a project that created the first self-owning forest — a piece of land managed by a smart contract. His work explores non-human agency and autonomous ecological systems.
ACT 06
Karpathy
AI researcher
A leading figure in AI research, known for foundational contributions to deep learning, computer vision, and the democratization of AI education. His work has shaped how a generation understands and builds neural networks.
Interested in speaking?
The program is in development. Researchers, artists, and practitioners working with autonomous systems may contact the curatorial team.